Medians and Sidewalks

The improvements will include wide, planted medians and narrow, concrete medians. Based on citizen feedback, the Project Team has chosen some native plants and grasses for planted medians. The project will also add trees at some bus stops.

Transit Improvements

The New Dixie Highway Project will include the region’s first bus rapid transit route – a faster, more reliable bus line with state-of-the-art buses and three dozen bus stops and stations. The BRT line will be a new route with strategically located stops along Dixie Highway / 18th Street between the Gene Snyder Freeway and Broadway and into the downtown core.

Bus Rapid Transit

Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) helps bus riders get to their locations faster and more reliably. And BRT can help overall traffic mobility, using technology to help buses load and unload faster and move along the route more swiftly.

Queue jumps are one of the technologies that give BRT buses a head start on other vehicles at some intersections. The new BRT buses will also communicate with the new traffic signal systems. Extended green lights, which can be controlled by on-board technology, can keep buses on time and traffic flowing.